Gershon Shafir

Gershon Shafir received his B.A.s in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology from Tel Aviv University, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founding director of the UCSD Human Rights Minor. His co-authored Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenships, published by Cambridge University Press, won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002.

Struggle and Survival in Israel and Palestine, an anthology of 25 life histories which he co-edited with Mark Levine, was published by UC Press in 2012. Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror: From Moral Panic to Permanent War, co-edited with Everard Meade and William J. Aceves, was published by Routledge. He is currently at work on Israel’s settlement policy and international humanitarian law from 1967 to the present.

His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Theory and Society, etc.

His major area of interest is comparative and historical sociology, with emphases on nationalism, ethnicity, citizenship, and human rights.

Shafir, Gershon, A Half-Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2017.

Shafir, Gershon, Everard Meade & William Aceves, eds., Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror: From Moral Panic to Permanent War, London, Routledge, 2013.

Levine, Mark & Gershon Shafir, eds., Struggle and Survival in Israel/Palestine, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2012.

Brysk, Alison & Gershon Shafir, eds., National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007.

Brysk, Alison & Gershon Shafir, eds., People out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, N.Y., Routledge, 2004.

Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenships, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled, eds., The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization, Boulder, Westview Press, 2000.

Shafir, Gershon, ed., The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Shafir, Gershon, Immigrants and Nationalists: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Latvia and Estonia, New York, State University of New York Press, 1995.

Shafir, Gershon, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882 - 1914,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989.